Sri Lanka forces used sexual violence during Tamil separatist war: UN

FILE PHOTO: In this photograph taken on June 9, 2015, a Sri Lankan Tamil villager walks past a new barbed-wire fences that has come up in his area on the Jaffna peninsula, some 400 kilometres north of the capital Colombo. A UN report calls on Colombo to take immediate steps to acknowledge past sexual violence committed by state forces and others, and to issue a formal apology. - AFP

GENEVA: Sri Lankan forces used sexual violence against minority Tamils during the island's decades-long separatist war, and victims still await justice 17 years after the fighting ended, a UN report said Tuesday (Jan 13).

Troops crushed the separatists following a no-holds-barred offensive and declared an end to the war by May 2009. The spectacular military success also drew allegations of widespread war crimes.